Ray,
It's unlikely you will ever be able to boot YDL on an OldWorld mac *directly* from CD. You can't do that now with 3.0 or 3.0.1. It's technically possible to build a bootable Linux CD for OldWorld machines, but there are licensing issues that make it legally difficult. So I'll venture to predict that you'll never see such a thing from TeraSoft, or most likely any other Linux distributor.
That said, it's not difficult to get Linux running on OldWorld Mac hardware. The recommended (by me -- others are of different religions) way is with a small MacOS-9 (or MacOS-8) partition and the "BootX" extension. Email me if you need instructions on how to do this.
As far as getting YDL 4.0 running on OldWorld machines: As I understand it, the issue is that the kernel and initial-ramdisk on the 4.0 CD are missing one or more drivers necessary for OW Macs. There has been some work by folks on this list to compile a kernel&modules with the necessary stuff, but I'm not sure what degree of success they've had. Anybody want to comment?
Rick
PS: It seems likely that the YDL4.0 installer is unaware of the OW hardware quirks and may have problems with it as well. I seem to recall that the installer gave the TerraSoft folks fits when they were developing 4.0, so it's a safe bet that it will take a bit of work to get it to play nice on an OW machine. Again, anybody want to comment on this?
On Jan 30, 2005, at 5:09 AM, R. Hirschfeld wrote:
For anyone from TerraSoft on the list, will security updates and the like be backported to YDL 3.0.1 or has support for that version essentially stopped?
I have an Old World machine (Wallstreet PowerBook) and I'm try to decide whether to stick with YDL (which I'd prefer) or switch to another distribution.
Alternatively I can hold out until YDL 4.1 (or 4.0.1) is released on CD if it will include a kernel that will run on an Old World machine (my understanding--please correct me if I'm wrong--is that 4.0 does not but that it is relatively easy to include this). I realize that TerraSoft has dropped official support for Old World machines but I can handle the setup myself if I can at least boot the installer from the CD using the kernel and ramdisk supplied. Will that be possible with the next release? Is there a tentative timeframe yet for this?
Thanks, Ray
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